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The midnight May 15 deadline is rapidly approaching to submit your applications for the controlled-hunt tag drawings.

Tags for some of Oregon’s best hunting opportunities are issued by drawing, known as limited-entry, including most rifle elk and all rifle deer hunting in Eastern Oregon as well as all pronghorn, bighorn sheep and Rocky Mountain goat hunts.

You need to have your 2015 annual hunting license to apply. Those can be purchased at the same time that you purchase your application.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a 7 to 9 p.m. meeting on May 12 at department headquarters, 4034 Fairview Industrial Drive SE to talk about the 2015 big-game seasons and tag numbers.

Those should be similar to 2014 when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife authorized 72,137 deer, 59,568 elk, 2,492 pronghorn, 20 mountain goat and 95 bighorn sheep tags.

Just about everything that you would want to know about the controlled-hunt process is online at http://www.stjr.nl/2015_Controlled_hunts